Community Fund Grants
Filter the grants using the options below:
| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACE Integration Head Start | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide grocery gift cards to immigrant families in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant enrolled in the organization’s early childhood programs. | Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant |
| IntegrateNYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For a multilingual youth hotline to connect NYC high school students to resources related to housing, food, healthcare, educational access, and community. | Boroughwide |
| Project EATS | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To address vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine access in Brownsville and East New York through ongoing COVID-19 response programs, including outreach and education sessions at food pantries. | Brownsville, East New York |
| Bushwick Mutual Aid | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide weekly groceries delivered by volunteers to more than 300 immigrant families in Bushwick. | Bushwick |
| Laundry Workers Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide immediate relief for essential laundromat workers from virus exposure and employer exploitation, including advocating for mandatory paid sick days, up-to-date health and workers’ rights information, and direct financial aid. | Boroughwide |
| National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For organizing, community healing, and mental health services for LGBTQ+ Asian American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian coalition leaders in Brooklyn, with a focus on responding to hate violence, harassment, and micro-aggressions against Asian Americans. | Boroughwide |
| Equality for Flatbush | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For the #BrooklynShowsLove Mutual Aid Project in Flatbush to connect neighbors to emergency funds for hourly wage workers such as dollar van drivers, home health aides, and street vendors. | Flatbush |
| Grameen America | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To offer a loan continuation program to members in Brooklyn communities who have been impacted by the pandemic and need assistance in maintaining their loans and credit to sustain their businesses. | Boroughwide |
| The Healing Center | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide support services and emergency food boxes to immigrant survivors of family violence in Sunset Park and Bay Ridge. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge |
| Wyckoff House Museum | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support fresh produce delivery from its on-site farm to partner food programs in the East Flatbush and Canarsie. | East Flatbush, Canarsie |
| Council of Peoples Organization | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | East Flatbush, Canarsie, Crown Heights |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide increased translation services, adult and family counseling and screenings, and food distribution via Red Hook Farms. | Red Hook |
| Weeksville Heritage Center | 2015 | $10,000 | Neighborhood Strength | Crown Heights Grant Program | Weeksville Heritage Center is an historic site museum and community cultural center that preserves the legacy of the original Weeksville community founded in 1838 – one of the first and most prolific free African American communities in the United States. Funds will support a performance project featuring new oral histories and collaborations with local performing artists and teens to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1991 Crown Heights Riots. Weeksville will also host a community dinner for residents of its immediate vicinity. | Crown Heights |
| Chinese-American Planning Council | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide education and advocacy to address anti-Asian harassment, as well as disease prevention measures and support, particularly for vulnerable elderly populations. | Boroughwide |
| Center for Urban Pedagogy | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide parents with information on their rights while navigating NYC Administration for Children’s Services during the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with Brooklyn Defender Services. | Boroughwide |
| Children of Promise, NYC | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To support Bedford-Stuyvesant children and families with a parent who is incarcerated through the provision of daily hot meals, food pantry items, and fresh groceries. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Riseboro Community Partnership | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide meal delivery to 800 seniors who previously received congregate meals in nine now-closed senior centers. | Boroughwide |
| Children of Promise, NYC | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To create a comprehensive vaccination awareness and access program for Black families with a parent in incarceration in Central Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| NIA Community Services Network | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide wellness care packages, grocery gift cards, and individualized assistance to 200 immigrant families and families of color with low incomes. | Boroughwide |
| Jack Arts, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To purchase, store, and distribute supplies and food to vulnerable residents of public housing in Brooklyn in partnership with We Keep Us Safe Abolitionist Network, a BIPOC-led mutual aid group. | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For a long-term vaccine education program in East New York conducted in both English and Spanish. | East New York |
| Catholic Charities Archdiocese New York | 2018 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Immediate Response Grants | To provide legal and support services for Central American families impacted by the Federal government's border separation policy | Boroughwide |
| Extreme Kids & Crew | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For continuous support and supplies for families of children with developmental disabilities, who are facing greater challenges without the resources and structure schools provide. | Boroughwide |
| New York Communities Organizing Fund | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide food and supply drops in working class communities of color, host web-based seminars, and help residents navigate financial assistance programs. | Boroughwide |
| SupChina | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To support reporting on the growing tide of anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiment and to raise legal funds for Chinese-American scientists unjustly accused of being spies. | Boroughwide |
| Haitian-American Community Coalition | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | For virtual care technologies to provide continuity of care and client services for older adults, HIV-positive clients, and formerly homeless individuals. | Boroughwide, Crown Heights |
| Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance Foundation | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide freshly grown produce and accurate health information to residents of Brownsville. | Brownsville |
| Her Justice Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide essential services for Brooklyn survivors of domestic and other gender-based violence in immigration, child support and consumer debt matters. | Boroughwide |
| Asian American Federation | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For the Advocate, Educate, and Mitigate Against Hate Initiative to coordinate protections for the Asian community in Brooklyn. | Sunset Park, Boroughwide |
| Mixteca | 2016 | $10,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | Immigrant Rights Fund Emergency Grants | Support for neighborhood-based, immigrant-led organizations working on the frontlines to address legal, safety, and civil rights issues. | Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Park Slope, Red Hook |
| Sakhi for South Asian Women | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | To provide social support to South Asian survivors of domestic abuse, as well as safe home delivery of food, direct emergency assistance, and one-time emergency purchases including emergency rent, bill payment. | Boroughwide |
| National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance | 2021 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For organizing, community healing, and mental health services for LGBTQ+ Asian American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian coalition leaders in Brooklyn, with a focus on responding to hate violence, harassment, and micro-aggressions against Asian Americans. | Boroughwide |
| Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, Inc. | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | To provide education on COVID-19 preventative practices and purchase PPE, sanitary supplies, and food for seniors, people with health issues, and low income residents of the Orthodox community in Flatbush. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| Coney Island Lighthouse Mission | 2020 | $10,000 | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund | Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund Immediate Response Grant | For emergency food distribution and deliveries to low-income residents of Coney Island. | Coney Island |